bourbon

/ˈbʊə(ɹ).bən/

Etymology

The French Bourbon dynasty is named for the lordship of Bourbon l'Archambault. The town's name derives from Gaulish Borvo, a local Celtic deity associated with hot springs, from Proto-Celtic *borvo (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to be hot, boil”). Compare brew and fervent. The subsidiary senses derive from the dynasty's name.

bourbon means A European dynasty which reigns in Spain and formerly ruled the Kingdom of France. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 65 out of 100.

name

A European dynasty which reigns in Spain and formerly ruled the Kingdom of France.
A surname from French.
A Bourbon Democrat.“It was "a fundamental impossibility" for a black person to be a Bourbon, white-supremacist Democrat, but a black individual could very well become a "progressive Democrat."”
A Bourbon Democrat.; A white conservative, particularly in the context of opposition to equal rights for black people.“For the Bourbon White elite and their allies, the intimidation of the Black laborers and farmers was necessary to prevent their political involvement and to maintain their subjugated location in the economy.”
A county in Kentucky, see Bourbon County.
A street in New Orleans, Louisiana; in full, Bourbon Street.

noun

A whiskey distilled in the United States from a mixture of grains in which at least 51% is corn, aged in charred, new oak barrels.
A serving of bourbon whiskey.“It concerns the gnomelike quality of the average American at a party. I have been to many parties where staid American business men have been transformed by a few ryes or bourbons into unpredictable gremlins out for adventure.”
A Bourbon biscuit.